In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 YearsMethuen, 2008 - 420 páginas This study of illness in heads of government between 1901 and 2007 considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the process of government and decision-making, leading to acts of folly, in the sense of stupidity or rashness. |
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... leaders themselves . This is when a political leader behaves in ways not just that the public disapprove of but instinctively interpret as being the result of a change in mental state : of the leader having ' lost it ' , having become ...
... leaders themselves . This is when a political leader behaves in ways not just that the public disapprove of but instinctively interpret as being the result of a change in mental state : of the leader having ' lost it ' , having become ...
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... leader to die within three years . - Unlike in large corporations , there is virtually no succession planning in politics . By and large political leaders cling to office for far too long , becoming suspicious of younger potential ...
... leader to die within three years . - Unlike in large corporations , there is virtually no succession planning in politics . By and large political leaders cling to office for far too long , becoming suspicious of younger potential ...
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... leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah , who had advanced tuberculosis diagnosed in 1946 , a year before Indian partition and ... leader of the Congress Party , the grouping that represented all races but was seen as commanding the allegiance of the ...
... leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah , who had advanced tuberculosis diagnosed in 1946 , a year before Indian partition and ... leader of the Congress Party , the grouping that represented all races but was seen as commanding the allegiance of the ...
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Prime Minister Edens illness and Suez | 109 |
President Kennedys health | 141 |
The Shahs secret illness | 191 |
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